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as we continue our expanding the debate series, as president obama and mitt romney debate at fstra university on long island, we are going to include the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of last night's debate. dr. jill stein of the green party, rocky anderson of the justice party, and virgil goode of the constitution party. we begin at hofstra university with the debate moderator candy crowley of cnn. >> governor romney, you won the coin toss of the first question will go to you. i want to turn to a first-time voter, jeremy epstein, who has a question for you. >> mr. president, governor romney, as a 20-year-old college student, all i hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when i graduate, i will have little chance to get employment. what can you say to reassure me, and my parents, that i will be able to sufficiently support myself after i graduate? >> i appreciate your question and thank you for being here and all of those from nassau county that have come, thank you for your time reid thank you to hofstra university in candy crowley for organizing and leading thi
as we continue our expanding the debate series, as president obama and mitt romney debate at fstra university on long island, we are going to include the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of last night's debate. dr. jill stein of the green party, rocky anderson of the justice party, and virgil goode of the constitution party. we begin at hofstra university with the debate moderator candy crowley of cnn. >> governor romney, you won the coin toss of the first question will go...
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he is trying to regain control of the debate. romney is taking up the opposite position. the budget will be a big fight. i do not think it will get anywhere. >> the president staking out one position, how does his embrace of this super pac reality make this even more muddied? >> it makes it a lot more money. the people who give to the super pacs are the rich constituents. guys that can write $1 million checks. tavis: or more. >> that is not the core constituency of the democratic party. it accentuate the divides. tavis: his new text is called "the age of austerity: how scarcity will remake american politics." thomas edsall, an honor to have you on the program. i enjoyed the conversation. that is our show for tonight. keep the faith. >> for more information on today'show, a visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: join me next time for a look of the ever-changing gop presidential race and grammy winner anthony hamilton. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is the cornerstone that we all know. that is not just a street or a boulevard, but a place where wal
he is trying to regain control of the debate. romney is taking up the opposite position. the budget will be a big fight. i do not think it will get anywhere. >> the president staking out one position, how does his embrace of this super pac reality make this even more muddied? >> it makes it a lot more money. the people who give to the super pacs are the rich constituents. guys that can write $1 million checks. tavis: or more. >> that is not the core constituency of the...
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debate. i wanted -- i would have wanted it to be something else. tavis: if they did not think that prior to the last debate tonight, -- let me rephrase that. if they did not think that the few -- a couple of months ago, they'd certainly thought it the last couple of months, when every time he talks about foreign policy, he puts his foot in his mouth. whether he is seen as being too political about the libya attack, or in the previous debate, he thought he gave the president a stiff uppercut and he was wrong. i think you are right. if they knew then what they know now, they might not have wanted the last debate to be about foreign policy, but i digress. let's move forward and consider what happened -- what happens. the polls have them in a dead heat. what happens if, on election night, there is a tie in the electoral college. it is possible. what is even more likely is that one wins the electoral college and one wins the popular vote. what is going to happen? >> the electoral votes dies. if it
debate. i wanted -- i would have wanted it to be something else. tavis: if they did not think that prior to the last debate tonight, -- let me rephrase that. if they did not think that the few -- a couple of months ago, they'd certainly thought it the last couple of months, when every time he talks about foreign policy, he puts his foot in his mouth. whether he is seen as being too political about the libya attack, or in the previous debate, he thought he gave the president a stiff uppercut and...
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that is what i recommended and ultimately what happens. >> that was that romney the presidential debate on tuesday at hofstra. >> he left out basically wrong is taking credit for the fact the administration put in billions of dollars of funding to save the jobs at general motors. the also could in billions of dollars of funding to save the jobs at general motors number one supplier, delphi, their old delco division. we did not say was mitt romney did not say he and his own co investors in a partnership overturned the deal the u.s. government had made to say that auto parts division, and shut it down. they bought it out, shut it down and moved it to china. romney seems to have left that one out of the next freed once putn, i guess, thdelphi was through bankruptcy, but because of the romley group's actions come at every single uaw jobs lost. >> i was wondering before we go if you could talk about your latest book, "billionaires & ballot bandits: how to steal an election in 9 easty steps." talked about the whole issue of voter rights, voter suppression. >> as the title says -- this story,
that is what i recommended and ultimately what happens. >> that was that romney the presidential debate on tuesday at hofstra. >> he left out basically wrong is taking credit for the fact the administration put in billions of dollars of funding to save the jobs at general motors. the also could in billions of dollars of funding to save the jobs at general motors number one supplier, delphi, their old delco division. we did not say was mitt romney did not say he and his own co...
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i heard the debate on sunday in the house and i couldn't match their rhetoric with what we were doing. here we're doing something that really resembles what mitt romney did in massachusetts that was based on ideas that bob dole had about how we should proceed, that really mirrors what richard nixon tried to do in the '70s with health care and all of a sudden it's now socialism? it just tells you where the republican party is. >> rose: well, it comes on top of the commission circumstances that you inherited and things that you had to do to continue a government intervention in the economy in order to save 6-save the financial structure of the country. on top of that, it looked like that was mind-set of government intervention. >> but judd gregg knows and many others know-- though they may not say-- that so much of what we did, even the recovery act, a third of the recovery act were tax cuts to small businesses and middle-class people all over this country. so,, you know our interventions in the phenomenon system are now winding down to the point where the government is... we're on a li
i heard the debate on sunday in the house and i couldn't match their rhetoric with what we were doing. here we're doing something that really resembles what mitt romney did in massachusetts that was based on ideas that bob dole had about how we should proceed, that really mirrors what richard nixon tried to do in the '70s with health care and all of a sudden it's now socialism? it just tells you where the republican party is. >> rose: well, it comes on top of the commission circumstances...
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there are two more presidential debates. they will be yet another hoax unless someone puts the question to barack obama and mitt romney, why are we killing kids that don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they have no choice but to go public. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> that's it for this week. on our next edition of "moyers and company" meet the adventure remember who has gone to the top of the earth to take the earth's temperature and some beautiful photographs. from the vanishing areas of north. we're talking about global warming. >> that landscape is gone. it may never be seen again in the history of civilization. climate changes are not imaginary, not theoretical, not based on computer models. it's right there in front of you. >> there is more at bill moyers.com. i'll see you there and i'll see moyers.com. i'll see you there and i'll see you here next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com de nrns don't wait a week. to get mor
there are two more presidential debates. they will be yet another hoax unless someone puts the question to barack obama and mitt romney, why are we killing kids that don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they have no choice but to go public. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> that's it for this week. on our next edition of "moyers and company" meet the adventure remember who has gone to the...
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and so what could change is that, that romney performs well enough in the debates that people say we don't like the economy. this guy seems good enough. and there's just a-- like with president reagan. i don't think that's going to to happen because the president is not jimmy carter in a thousand ways. but i think that is in play. >> rose: or john mccain or anybody else that had that issue. >> yeah. but so you are saying to me that if, in fact, the republican nominee in this election year, 2012 could present himself as a plausible alternative, that might be able to do what president hasn't been able to do, then the likelihood that might go with it, if can pass that threshold of saying it's okay to vote for me because i can do things that the president can't do. >> in the abstract. if you look at all the people who didn't run who we talk about as strong candidates, mike huckabee, mitch daniels, haley barbour, jeb bush, chris christie. i can tell you not 100% accurate but pretty decently what the negative frame ot bama people would have run on. >> rose: on any one. >> on any one. and g
and so what could change is that, that romney performs well enough in the debates that people say we don't like the economy. this guy seems good enough. and there's just a-- like with president reagan. i don't think that's going to to happen because the president is not jimmy carter in a thousand ways. but i think that is in play. >> rose: or john mccain or anybody else that had that issue. >> yeah. but so you are saying to me that if, in fact, the republican nominee in this...
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. ♪ ♪ ♪ the presidential debates are upon us and many people are describing them as mitt romney's last best chance to establish himself as a serious contender worthy of the white house. it's happened before. john kennedy, ronald reagan, george w. bush, all bounced higher in the polls after credible debate performances and went on to win the white house. whatever the outcome, most agree it's the debates that will give us our best opportunity to evaluate these candidates, sort out their positions and separate truth from fiction. not a moment too soon. according to a new survey from the annenberg public policy center at the university of pennsylvania, with a little over a month to go before election day, the public has a lot to learn about the 2012 presidential race. among its findings, only 51% know the romney-ryan plan would preserve traditional medicare for those 55 and older and retain it as an option for those now younger than that. only about half knew that mitt romney would keep the bush tax cuts in place. fewer than half knew that romney and not obama had promised to increase defe
. ♪ ♪ ♪ the presidential debates are upon us and many people are describing them as mitt romney's last best chance to establish himself as a serious contender worthy of the white house. it's happened before. john kennedy, ronald reagan, george w. bush, all bounced higher in the polls after credible debate performances and went on to win the white house. whatever the outcome, most agree it's the debates that will give us our best opportunity to evaluate these candidates, sort out their...
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if he had performed well at the debate and put together an economic populace message that went to his blue collar background, he would have won michigan and i think the blood would have been in the water, and the sharks would have surrounded him and he could not have recovered from that. in the end, rick santorum lost that. ultimately, why rick santorum had a chance which is why everybody else has a chance is mitt romney is a very weak candidate for the republican party. that has been the case through this entire process, and he's never been able to close the deal. he's never been able to appeal to the majority of the republican party. the fact that rick santorum was in this at all and could have won that is mainly because mitt romney is a very weak republican candidate. >> rose: and, therefore, the question can he do anything-- go ahead, mike. >> no, i agree with matt that mitt's got problems but i put one big asterisk on it. mitt's proven to be a fairly weak candidate in the republican primaries. the problem is in this kind of excited year in both bases, you can become a very good r
if he had performed well at the debate and put together an economic populace message that went to his blue collar background, he would have won michigan and i think the blood would have been in the water, and the sharks would have surrounded him and he could not have recovered from that. in the end, rick santorum lost that. ultimately, why rick santorum had a chance which is why everybody else has a chance is mitt romney is a very weak candidate for the republican party. that has been the case...